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1
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Plausible

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Believable, possible

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Being resistant to something

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You are against it and don’t want it to happen.

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Idealistic

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You have a clear and simple moral view of how things should be.

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Pragmatism

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Being realistic and practical about what can be achieved.

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A platform (politics)

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The policies and ideas of a political party and politician

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The status quo

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The unchanging situation as it is now.

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Invention, risk-taking and long-term vision

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Jeff Bezos

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Customer experience

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A customer’s feelings about their experience with a business

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Put something at the heart of things

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Make it the most important part

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Web traffic

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The number of people visiting a website

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Legacy

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All your life achievements that will continue after your death

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On the right side of history

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Will be judged positively by future generations

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Greenwashing

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Pretend that your company is doing more to protect the environment than it really is

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Carnivores

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Animals that eat meat

Meat-eaters

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Insectivores

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Animals like most bats, that only eat insects.

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Voracious

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Very strong and eager

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Holy grail

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Something that’s extremely difficult to find or to get

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The outbreak virus
The progenitor virus
The ancestral virus

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Coronavirus pandemic

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Genomic sequence

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The process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism’s genome at a single time

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Cryptography

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The use of special codes to keep computer systems and content safe

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Cryptocurrency

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A combination of cryptography and currency, and it’s used for a finance system that is based on secure digital coins which are not connected to banks and governments.

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Whims

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Unpredictable or irrational decisions or trends

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Be subject to the whims of something or someone

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You can’t control them, you have no choice but to go in the direction those whims lead. Metaphorically you are a passenger of a self-driving car that might just decide to drive off the edge of a cliff. It might be an exciting ride, but it could end in disaster.

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The value of cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile.

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They have a history of going up and down by a large amount over a very period of time. And that’s nod good.

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Take a dip

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Swim

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In the Maldives, access to shallow, warm sea-water lakes called lagoons makes it an unbeatable place for swimming.

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Most citizens of the Maldives have half a mile to a lukewarm lagoon. Given that, they could be world leaders in swimming.

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Someone who swims against the tide

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Refuses to do what everyone else is doing.

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In the past, swimming was considered immodest

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Shocking because it showed too much of the body

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Play hooky

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Stay away from school without permission

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Get frowned upon

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Get disapproved of

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Tipping

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The practice of giving extra money to, for example, waitresses and waiters

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The norm

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What is usual or normal

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Tacit

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Not said but is nevertheless understood.

There is a tacit pressure to tip.

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Theoretically possible

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It can be done but for different reasons it probably won’t be.

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Carbon footprint

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That’s how much carbon is used through the activities of a person, company or country

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Something has caught on

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Become popular or fashionable

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Making informed choices

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Making decisions based on good and accurate information, and carbon labelling is part of that information

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From farm to fork

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The processes involved from agricultural production to consumption

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From farm to retail shelf

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A carbon label might show an estimate of carbon print of milk from the cow to the consumer (farm-to-folk) but after it leaves the supermarket shelf, we don’t know how efficiently it is stored, how much is wasted and what happens to the packaging.

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Dystopia

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An imaginery future society when everything is bad

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Non-verbal communication

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Communication using physical gestures and facial expressions instead of speech

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The appeal of something

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A quality it has which people find it attractive and interesting

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Compelling

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It holds your attention because you find it so interesting

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A battle to be won

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A problem to solved or a an obstacle to overcome

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Iron something out

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Remove or find solutions to a problem

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Disposable - reusable

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Designed to be used once or a few times and then thrown away - designed to be used again and again

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Rolling out

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Which in a business sense is the process of gradually introducing something new. This could be a new system, new product, new technology or even a new way of doing things

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A nudge

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Is a small push, to encourage us to do something

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Fight something tooth and nail

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To make a strong effort to try to stop something or achieve something

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Digital artefacts

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Items that are produced and stored as electronic versions, such as images, videos or music

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51
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Non-fungible tokens (NTFs)

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Virtual collectables - desirable objects that people search for and collect
It’s all part of a new tech craze call non-fungible tokens

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Non-fungible

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Have special and unique characteristics that cannot be interchanged with anything else

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53
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Something is rouge

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It behaves in a differner way from what’s normal and expected, often causing damange

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54
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The wild west

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Describe a chaotic situation without laws or controls, like in the early history of the western part of the US where people could do anythinf they want.

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Pyramid scheme

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Business tricks or scams to obtain money dishonestly

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Devastating

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Causing a lot of damage or destruction
Ex: A good fraud will build and build and build on it until the consequences to some people can be completely devastating.

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Hard-earned

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If something is hard-earned, you deserve it because you have worked hard for it
Ex: If somebody loses all their hard-earned savings, it can be completely devastating.

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58
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Fraud/ fraudulent

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The criminal activity of getting money by deceiving people or tricking people by doing something dishonestly

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Scam/ scammer

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An illegal or dishonest way of making money by tricking people

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Fall for

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When you fall for something, you believe something that is a lie or a trick, to be true

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Sleight of hand

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Use of clever skills to gain something dishonestly

A sleight of hand fraud

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To rifle

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Search something in order to steal from it

Ex: The criminals get you to look over there while they rifle your pockets.

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Phishing

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Tricking someone by email or online to get their personal data by pretending to be from your bank

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Sophisticated

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Clever and often complicated

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65
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Latrine area

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A toilet or outhouse

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66
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Repulsion

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Strongly dislike or disapproval

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67
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To raise a stink about something

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To make a strong public complaint

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Out of sight, out of mind

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It’s easier to forget something when you can’t see it

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Go to great lengths

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Try very hard to do something

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70
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Territorial markers

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Smells in animals’ dung or urine marking their territory

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Disgust

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A feeling of strong dislike or repulsion

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72
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Nausea

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The feeling that you are going to vomit

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Shame

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Is an emotion for the uncomfortable feeling we have when we feel embarrassed or guilty about something we’ve done

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Crippling/debilitating

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Making someone unable to deal with the situation. They can feel so badly about what they’ve done that they find it difficult to move forward emotionally

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75
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Effect change

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Make change happen

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Teflon-coated

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Covered in Teflon

Ex: Teflon-coated politician does not seem to be bothered by shame. They just ignore it and move on

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Camaraderie

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A sense of trust and friendship after spending a long time together and the creation of strong bonds or connections

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Pioneer/trailblazer

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The first person to do something

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Go down in history

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Become famous

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80
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Solitude

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State of being alone

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Indigenous languages

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Languages spoken by the people who originally lived in a place rather than others who moved there from somewhere else

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Pass something on to someone

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Give it to someone, usually in your family, who lives on after you

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Bumps in the road

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Small problems or delays that slows things down

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Immersion

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The process of learning something, like a language or a skill by using that only and nothing else

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Code-switching

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The ability to change between two or more languages when speaking

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Awe-inspiring

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Causing you to feel great respect or admiration

Ex: If you compare bitcoin’s energy use to a country like Argentina, it’s just incredible, awe-inspiring.

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Monstrous

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Very cruel

Ex: Comparing bitcoin’s energy use to a huge country like Argentina sounds monstrous.

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Get-rich-quick scheme

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A way to make a lot of money very quickly
Ex: Is this another one of your get-rich-quick schemes? People invest all kinds of ways to make a lot of money quickly and with little effort. If you really want to get rick quick, maybe you should copy the technology tycoon Elon Musk who has just invested one a a half billion dollars in the cryptocurrency, bitcoin.

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Risk-averse

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Do not like taking risks

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Dip a toe into something

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Test it slowly and carefully to see how it feels
Ex: I invested in bitcoin a number of years ago… with the initial investment of only around five dollars it meant that my risk was essentially the cost of a cup of coffee and a pastry, and as somebody’s quite risk-averse when it comes to investment, it did allow me to dip a toe into bitcoin.

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Pension plan

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A financial plan funded by your salary to save money for when you retire

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Put things into perspective

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Assess the real importance of something, often by comparing it to something similar

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On standby

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Comparing the energy use of bitcoin with the energy used by electrical appliances left on standby - powered on and ready to work when needed

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Cashflow forecast

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A calculation of how much money you will have in the future.
It is based on your income, which is the money you have coming in and your expenditure, the money you have going out. You also need to know your assets, which is the value of things you own as well as savings and investments. This is balanced against your liabilities, which is the term for the money you owe, for example on credit cards or loans

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To give someone a hand

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To help someone

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Green with envy

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Describe someone who wishes they had what someone else had

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A wavelength

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The distance between two waves of sound or light that are next to each other

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Govern

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Control/influence

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Sanctuary

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A peaceful or relaxing place, in some cases it can be a safe place for someone in danger

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Stimulation

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The feeling of being excited, interested or enthused by something

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Pale

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A colour that lacks intensity, it’s not very bright, like sky blue

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Taboo

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Forbidden for social or religious reasons
Ex: In many socities, the menopause is still taboo, not talked about in public for social or religious reasons or because many people are not comfortable discussing it.

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Menopause

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A natural part of ageing that happen as a woman’s hormones decline and she stops having monthly periods and being able to get pregnant naturally.

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Pay your dues

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Do your duty

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Surplus to requirements

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No longer required

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Ageism

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The unfair treatment of older people because of their age

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Symptom

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A sign of illness

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108
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A double whammy

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Situation when two unpleasant things happen at the same time

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109
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Agency

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Being able to act independently and have control over your own choices

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110
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Backlash

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A strong negative reaction to something

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111
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Dampen enthusiasm

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Make people less interested in it

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A concerted effort

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Trying really hard

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113
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A glass of wine can be sipped and savoured, or just glugged

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Glug - drinking in gulps or mouthfuls - not something a wine expert would do. For some people, drinking and serving wine is almost an art-form.

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A sommelier turned wine into something approaching sheer God-awful pain

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The work of a sommelier is nothing but pain. They seem to dedicate their life to wine.

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Plonk

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Cheap, poor quality wine

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Connoisseur

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Someone who enjoys a particular thing and knows a lot about it

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Sommelier

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Someone who serves and gives advice about wine in restaurant

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118
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Palate

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Ability to distinguish and appreciate different tastes of wine

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119
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eSports

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The world of competitive video gaming

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A staple

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Basic element

Potatoes as a staple food and football being a staple of the school curriculum

121
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Time-consuming

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It eats up a lot of time

122
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Discipline

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Strict controls and restrictions and sticking to them

123
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Put together an event

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Set up and manage an event for others to take part in

124
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Aspiration

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Ambition

125
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Clock up

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To win or achieve a large number of similar things

Ex: The average Mexican spend around 43 hours per week. Germans, on the other hand, clock up ther fewest hours.

126
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Travelling to an office, sitting at a desk all day, and going home

A

Such a routine

127
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Inflexible

A

Unwilling to change

128
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Bias

A

Unfairness, treating one group of people more favourably than another

129
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Active fathers

A

Being involved with childcare

130
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Genre

A

A style of music

131
Q

Lyrics

A

The words of a song

132
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Cannibalism

A

A form of extreme violence

133
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Desensitised to something

A

Don’t feel something as unusual or unacceptable

134
Q

Aesthetic

A

As an art form

Fans have an aesthetic interest in death metal. They appreciate it as an art form

135
Q

Empowered/ transendent

A

In control of their own life and decisions

136
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A hypnotic trance

A

State of mind that someone’s been hypnotised but isn’t completely in control

137
Q

Suggestible

A

Easily influenced by others

138
Q

Lose track of time

A

Become so absorbed with something that you are unable of the passing time

139
Q

Get sucked in

A

Become involved in a situation that you don’t want to

140
Q

Hone in on something

A

Give something your full attention

141
Q

Mesmerised

A

Have your attention completely fixed that you cannot think of anything else

142
Q

Knowledgable

A

Knowing a lot about something

143
Q

Technophile

A

Someone who loves technology

144
Q

Class

A

Economic and social position in a society

145
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In real time

A

Happening live, without any pauses or breaks, not recorded

146
Q

Embryo

A

An unborn animal or human still inside its mother’s womb

147
Q

Hybrid

A

An animal or plant that has been bred from two different species

148
Q

Inbreeding

A

When a young animal is born from closely related parents

149
Q

Calf

A

Name for the young of several large mammals including cows, elephants, whales and rhinos

150
Q

Ultrasound

A

Used to see internal organs or a baby developing inside a woman

151
Q

Dissolve

A

It gets less strong, less immediate

152
Q

Matter

A

Important to someone

153
Q

Interiority

A

The experience of being inside

Ex: the internal space of a car

154
Q

Empowered woman

A

Who are not dependent on men or anyone else for the direction of their life, they make their own choices

155
Q

Sexualised

A

Make them sexually attractive

156
Q

Embody

A

To be clear and obvious example of something

Ex: Female bikers embody male characteristics

157
Q

Dig something up

A

Remove something from the ground

Ex: Digging fossil fuels up and burning them create carbon emissions.

158
Q

Intermittent

A

Not contiunous or steady

Renewable energy is intermittent

159
Q

Blackouts

A

Periods of time without energy

160
Q

Machine learning

A

The process by which computers change their behaviours based on data they collected

161
Q

Simulate

A

Produce a computer model

162
Q

Shopping

A

Mooching around a shopping mall from one shop to another, spending money

163
Q

Shopping online

A

Sitting in front of TV and browsing online is much easier

164
Q

Insomniac

A

Someone who can’t sleep easily
Ex: sleep-deprived parents, shift-workers, gamers. If you’re an insomniac, it’s tempting to open up your laptop or smart phone and start shopping.

165
Q

Online shops are open 24 hours a day and it’s easy to get sucked in and do some shopping

A

To get sucked into something

166
Q

This shopping temptation can be particularly prolematic for those with mental health issues

A

Vampire shopping

167
Q

Sleep deprived

A

Not having enough sleep
Ex: Our ability to control the impulse to spend and resist things like advertising is reduced when we’re sleep deprived. Mental health problems can have a similar effect so the mental health problems themselves make it harder to resist the urge to spend and they also caus sleep deprivation, so you’re alone possibly surfing the internet, and both the lack of sleep and the mental health problems make it harder to resist the things you can see. It’s kind of a double whammy.

168
Q

Resist the urge

A

Stop yourselt acting on a strong feeling

169
Q

A feel-good factor

A

Something that makes you feel happy and positive

Ex: If you don’t resist the urge to buy things, it might have a feel-good factor

170
Q

Regret

A

A sad feeling you get when you’ve made a mistake and wish you hadn’t made it in the first place

171
Q

Stuff

A

Things or personal possessions

172
Q

A given

A

Assumed to be true or certain to happen

173
Q

A no-brainer

A

An obvious choice

174
Q

Foster

A

Encourage the development of

Ex: foster a new culture of sustainable consumption

175
Q

Mainstream

A

Accepted as normal or common practice

176
Q

Chancellor

A

The person in the highest position of a government in some countries

177
Q

Hardline

A

Describes someone with traditional and strict beliefs that can’t be easily changed
Ex: hardline conservatives in a political party

178
Q

A put down

A

An insult, used to make someone feel stupid or embarrassed

179
Q

Put in their place

A

Made to feel they are less important

180
Q

Cliches

A

Phrases or ideas that have become meaningless because they’ve been overused

181
Q

Deadpan

A

Someone’s serious expression that shows no emotion

Ex: There’s a fascination about what’s really going on behind that deadpan exterior.

182
Q

Chronic insomnia

A

Long-lasting condition of not being able to sleep

183
Q

Tossing and turning

A

Moving around in the bed trying to get to sleep

184
Q

Counter-intuitive

A

It goes against what you might expect

185
Q

Dilute

A

Make something less strong

186
Q

Rapport

A

A good feeling between two people based on understanding and communication

187
Q

Get on with someone

A

You like and enjoy a friendly relationship with them

188
Q

Walking a tightrope

A

In a difficult situation which requires carefully considering what to do

189
Q

Objective

A

Base your actions on facts rather than personal feelings

190
Q

Frank

A

Express yourself in an open, honest way

191
Q

Sarcastic

A

Say the opposite of what you really mean, in order to hurt someone’s feelings or to criticise them in a funny way

192
Q

Conscientious

A

A conscientious and hardworking clerk

193
Q

Judicial process

A

Series of steps a legal dispute goes through in the court system

194
Q

Criminal trial

A

A part of Judicial process

195
Q

Rigid

A

Inflexible

196
Q

Paramount

A

More important than anything else

197
Q

Blueprint

A

Early plan or design that explains how something might be achieved
Ex: the blueprint for economic reform

198
Q

Learning foreign language at early age

A

Dis: still learning own language - too much pressure - other subjects more important - maths, science, sport
Adv: critical learning period - child brain forming connections - earlier start, more vocabulary - fluent faster - successful future

199
Q

Appliance

A

There is a hole in the appliance which renders it useless.

200
Q

Insurmountable

A

So great that it cannot be dealt with successfully

Ex: insurmountable problems

201
Q

Brand attachment

A

The emotional connection between humans and brands. It goes deeper than loyalty so that people mentally connect a particular company with feelings of winning, being healthy and success

202
Q

A health halo

A

The belief that something is good, like an angel’s halo, even though there is little evidence to support this

203
Q

Ultra-processed foods

A

Foods containing added artificial ingredients like colourings, sweeteners and preservatives

204
Q

Contentious

A

Creating or causinf arguments

205
Q

Coming of age

A

Transitioning from child to adult

206
Q

Predominant

A

Something that is the strongest or most important

207
Q

Chant

A

Sing or repeat the same thing over and over again

Ex: Chorus of a song

208
Q

Existential

A

Relating to human existence

209
Q

Iconic

A

Famously associated with something and instantly recognisable

210
Q

A flood of

A

A large amount of something in a short period of time

Ex: There had been a flood of video games that was just not very high quality.

211
Q

Boom

A

A short period of time of sudden growth

Ex: the video game boom was really falling off a cliff

212
Q

Unplayable

A

Something that can’t be played or a game that is very difficult to enjoy

213
Q

Hold up

A

The quality or standards of something hasn’t changed and still looks good and plays well.
Ex: Mario was one of those few games that really holds up today as it did then.

214
Q

Discretionary

A 
Something that is a choice for the person doing it and is not an obligation
#mandatory
215
Q

Consistent

A

Something that acts or behaves in the same way over and over again

216
Q

Impose

A

Force

217
Q

Cashless

A

Card or digital payments, rather than notes and coins

218
Q

Superstitions

A

Old beliefs which are connected to magic and mystery, rather than science

219
Q

Garlic is supposed to ward off, or keep away, dangers like the evil eye - bad luck or harmful magic

A

Superstitions

220
Q

The evil eye us an example of a blanket term - a phrase to describe many examples of related things

A

Superstitions

221
Q

Chutney

A

A food mixing many flavours

222
Q

Teach you a lesson

A

Show you how to act in the future based on your past experience

223
Q

Hierglyphs

A

Symbols used to represent words in ancient Egypt

224
Q

Decipher

A

Uncover the meaning of writing which is difficult to read or understand

225
Q

Pearls wisdom

A

Wise words, sayings or advice

226
Q

Prodigy

A

Young person with a great natural talent

227
Q

Got the bug

A

Suddenly became very enthusiastic about something

228
Q

There was no holding him back

A

Nothing could stop him from succeeding

229
Q

A photographic memory

A 
The ability to remember things in exact detail, like looking at a photograph
#a terrible memory
230
Q

The odds of something happening

A

The chances that it will happen

231
Q

A one-off

A

Something that only happens once

232
Q

To suck at something

A

To be bad at doing something

233
Q

Memorise

A

Learn it exactly as it is so that you can repeat it later

234
Q

Deep learning

A

A complete way of learning something, so you can describe it deeply and come up with new ways of looking at it

235
Q

Humanitarian workers see human suffering on a daily basis and can easily fall victim to compassion fatigue.

A

Compassion fatigue

236
Q

Compassion fatigue centres on the idea that we can feel too much empathy and that feeling can lead to emotional burnout.

A

Compassion fatigue

237
Q

Caring and fatigue are closedly connected.

A

Caring for others means taking on someone’s pain yourself and this can have unhealthy consequences on the carer.

238
Q

The rapid acceleration of the news cycle, the focus on the next problem so quickly draws our attention away from developing those deeper habits as humanity.

A

Compassion fatigue

239
Q

Compassion fatigue

A

Emotional exhaustion which reduces your feelings of compassion

240
Q

Numb

A

Unable to feel any emotions becaused you are so shocked or scared

241
Q

Learned helplessness

A

When someone stops trying to feel better because their previous attempts have failed

242
Q

News cycle

A

The round of media reports and reactions to a news story

243
Q

Headwind

A

Force in the opposite direction which stop you from moving forward

244
Q

Prejudice

A

Unreasonable dislike of certain groups of people

245
Q

Safe space

A

Place where you feel protected from danger and harm

246
Q

Drop people in little boxes

Put someone in a box

A

Judge them based on their appearance or a limited understanding of them

247
Q

Feel uncomfortable

A

Feel slightly worried or embarrassed in a social situation

248
Q

Walking on eggshells

A

Being very carefull about what you do and say because you don’t want to offend or upset anyone

249
Q

Diversity

A

Many different types of people being included together

250
Q

Phase something out

A

Gradually stop using something

251
Q

Vivid memories

A

Memories that produce powerful feelings and strong mental images in the mind

252
Q

Ingrained

A

Strongly held that they are difficult to change (opinions and beliefs)

253
Q

Unique selling point

A

Feature that makes it different from and better than its competitors

254
Q

Casualty

A

A person or a thing that suffers as a result of something else happening

255
Q

Hermit/recluse

A

Someone who lives alone and avoids others

256
Q

Dictum

A

A short saying often giving wise advice or expressing a general truth about life

257
Q

Drop out

A

Reject the normal rules of society and live outside the system

258
Q

Bereavement

A

The death of a close friend or relative

259
Q

Treat

A

Reward or gift of something special and enjoyable

260
Q

Mate

A

An animal’s sexual partner

261
Q

Celibate

A

Living without sex

262
Q

Animal eggs hatch

A

Break open to let the young out

263
Q

Paradox

A

A situation which seems contradictory because it contains two opposite facts

264
Q

The best of both worlds

A

Enjoy the advantages of very different things at the same time

265
Q

Hedge your bets

A

Follow two courses of action instead of choosing between them so you don’t miss out

266
Q

Amphibious

A

Live both on land and in water

Mermaids

267
Q

Deity

A

Goddess

In some culture, mermaids are deities, the protectors of the water kingdom

268
Q

Shape-shifters

A

Imaginary creatures with the power to change into different shapes

269
Q

Grate

A

Annoy/ irritate

Noise grates

270
Q

Conscious of

A

Aware of

271
Q

Get into the habit of

A

Start doing something regularly, often without even thinking about them

272
Q

Suppressing

A

Preventing, stopping, reducing something

We get into the habit of suppressing our listening

273
Q

Honk car horn

A

Short, sound a car horn makes

274
Q

Express yourself

A

Show how you feel

275
Q

Emitters

A

Countries, industries or just things that produce - or emit harmful substances that harm the environment

276
Q

Carbon-cutting ambition

A

…

277
Q

Clean up its act

A

Change the way it behaves for the better

278
Q

Alleviate

A

Make less severe or serious

Alleviate poverty

279
Q

Pointing fingers at others

Pointing out each other’s flaws

A

…

280
Q

Skinny dipping

A

The act of swimming naked

281
Q

Naturists

Naturism

A

People who think not wearing clothes outdoors is a healthy way to live

282
Q

Advocate

A

Publicly support

283
Q

At one with nature

A

Having a connection with the natural world that makes you feel good

284
Q

Liberation

A

Being freed from something

285
Q

Shock, horror

A

Mean st in not shocking or surprising

286
Q

Body language

A

Smile, use hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate

287
Q

Eye contact

A

When two people look at each other’s eyes at the same time

288
Q

Brainstorming

A

Involves a group discussion to generate new ideas or solutions

289
Q

Process information

A

Think about it carefully in order to understand it

290
Q

In unison

A

Happening together and at the same time

291
Q

Water cooler effect

A

Informal conversation between people at work

292
Q

Close to one’s heart

A

Of deep interest and concern to one

293
Q

Many of us love to nibble on these sweet treats

A

Biscuits

294
Q

Biscuits can be sweet or savoury. But I prerlfer the sweet ones that are crips, crunchy and are good for dunking in my tea.

A

Biscuits

295
Q

Biscuits are a handy go-to-snack for when I’m hungry or bored.

A

Biscuits

296
Q

Fit for consumption/ edible

A

It can be eaten

297
Q

Sustenance

A

Food

298
Q

Prominence

A

Being important or more well-known

299
Q

Sugar rush

A

Get a quick blast of energy from eating something containing lots of sugar

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